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Social psychology and personal relationships


Gregariousness: the Bandwagon effect and the Underdog effect - social psychology and personal relationships

The human being is a gregarious being by nature. As such, it is subject to interaction with other people, who enjoy their own points of view about the reality of the world around them. Therefore, the...

Why do we buy more things than we need? - social psychology and personal relationships

Your little six-year-old son asks you to buy him a bicycle and you, who have not yet received your monthly payment, refuse. But there are also other reasons that justify his decision: this month he...

The advantages (and disadvantages) of being excessively handsome - social psychology and personal relationships

Beauty is a concept that is always difficult to tackle. Each culture establishes the parameters of what it considers beautiful in each of the areas where beauty can play a role: not only in the world...

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Since the boom of smartphones in the middle of the last decade, the presence of these devices in our lives has only grown exponentially.The percentage of inhabitants of our planet who is a user of a...

Sexist prejudice: explanatory theories - social psychology and personal relationships

In 2005, in Spain, the Organic Law on Comprehensive Protection Measures against Gender Violence to try to intervene in social problems such as gender violence, domestic violence or domestic...

Why does society reject bright girls? - social psychology and personal relationships

At a time when machismo seems to be receding in a good number of countries, there is a paradoxical fact: girls show the same capacity as boys when it comes to learning, but they are treated with...

What is prosocial behavior and how does it develop? - social psychology and personal relationships

If the human being has become such a particular species, it is, in part, because he has been able to create great social tissues of mutual care and knowledge transmission. That is to say, we are very...

Misogyny: 9 attitudes that portray misogynists - social psychology and personal relationships

Misogyny is a concept used to refer to the hatred, more or less disguised, towards women and girls.Keep in mind that misogyny is only an idea that describes real behaviors of real people, and...

How to become independent successfully, in 9 steps - social psychology and personal relationships

The process of becoming independent in order to live in a different home from the parents is one of the most drastic changes that can occur throughout life, and that is why we have to know how to...

Why the idea that homosexuality is unnatural is absurd, in 5 reasons - social psychology and personal relationships

In recent months the initiatives in favor of the legalization of same-sex marriage in Mexico is causing the Internet to be flooded again by political proclamations designed to influence public...